'Toronto Flashbacks' Part 3
(Lots of photos in this 'Toronto Flashbacks' series, so lots of posts shall be made.)




The ruin of a building gutted during the "Great Fire of 1904" teeters at the northwest corner of Bay and Wellington Streets.


An all-girl orchestra set to play at one of Toronto's earliest motor shows, Transportation Building, Canadian National Exhibition, 1912. This was the first year the Exhibition's name was changed from Toronto Industrial Exhibition.


The city's elegant new King Edward Hotel towers over King Street, shortly after opening in 1903.


"In the good old summertime" at Sunnyside Beach, on the western outskirts of the city, c.1900.


Count Jacques de Lessep's 'Bleriot XI' monoplane arrives at the Tretheway model farm, July 13, 1910. Known as 'Le Scarabee', this aircraft was the first to fly over Toronto.